Eno - Another Green World

I'll cry if "The Big Ship" doesn't win this.
Incidentally, this is the only album I own that's featured in its entirety on my iPod.

title track. wish it were four hours long instead of 1:28.

So difficult to choose. Fuck it, "St Elmo's Fire" if only for "and we saw St Elmo's fire spitting ions in the ether" and Fripp's interpretation that follows. But the whole thing is incredible.

I was JUST listening to Coil's "Another Brown World" when I saw this thread. Creepy.

"Golden Hours"

"I'll cry if "The Big Ship" doesn't win this"

prepare a tissue

title track. wish it were four hours long instead of 1:28.

4 CD deluxe remix reissue of just "Another Green World" would be amaaaaazing!

This is an awesome, awesome record.

Interesting!

This is an awesome awesome record.

It really is.

Golden Hours, b/c of Fripp's geetar.

despite huge overfamiliarity through being used on Arena, the title track still wins for me.
amazing album.

"greatest Fripp solos" could be an interesting poll

yeah totally! I'm not well-versed enough to put it together. would probably vote for Roches "Hammond Song"!

st. elmo's fire, w/ golden hours as a close 2nd

It would take a fair bit of time and research to put together a good poll. Tough call between "Golden Hours" and "A Sailor's Tale" for me.
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here's a start, anyway: http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Fripps-Finest-Guitar-Solos/lm/2AEG2Z92DSBVH

voted "St. Elmo's Fire" btw -- not the most crazy choice, I know! But it is one of Eno's greatest, for sure.

"Golden Hours," to which I've listened many a night while tap-tapping on this here computer.

i love this record... i've had "i'll come running" in my head lately so i voted for that.

Going for the John Parr cover here, great version.

ill come running over st elmos fire by a hair both for purposes of frippery

reasons of frippery

sombre reptiles, what else. mysterious title, mysterious tune. a perfect match.

just finished listening to this in the backyard by the firepit with the fam. such a great summer record.

Yeah. I'd imagine the thing sounds like cicadas in the background.

st. elmo's fire.

ditto

golden hours

it's like a music version of mary poppins' bottomless bag and brian eno pulls out every instrument from it

Sombre Reptiles

"i can't see the lines
i used to think i could read between"

ah - this fucker's a genius

still my favorite record of his

yes to the Fripperies on "I'll Come Running"--the most purely ecstatic guitar solo of the '70s, maybe

For sure my favourite Eno record, and maybe my favourite 70s record...
Really, there's like 4 or 5 of these songs that I adore equally.
I did end up voting for The Big Ship though because I didn't want anyone to cry.

"St. Elmo's Fire"

So difficult to choose. Fuck it, "St Elmo's Fire" if only for "and we saw St Elmo's fire spitting ions in the ether" and Fripp's interpretation that follows. But the whole thing is incredible.

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I love absolutely everything about this record. And everything about his first four solo (vocal) records, for that matter, which is why I've always wondered why this one in particular gets all the exceptional love.

BTW, Phil Collins' crazy drums and Percy Jones' bass on "Sky Saw" are pretty much every bit as cool as Fripp's solo on "St. Elmo's Fire."

P.S. BTW, Andy Summers (intentionally) recycles Fripp's solo from "Golden Hours" on the Police's "Mother."

title track. wish it were four hours long instead of 1:28.

Right but that's kind of like saying you wish you could live forever. Like life itself, the title track's brevity makes it so poignant. So we play it over and over again to approximate eternity.

Incidentally, my two favorite cuts, the title track and "Little Fishes," were the only two songs from this album left off that evil Vocal box set. So I'm going with "Little Fishes" here because it needs waaaay more love and it's actually the cut that made me feel this album after years of not quite getting it. With its faintly ridiculous whimsy and echoes of the "Elvira Madigan" andante from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, it skirts dangerously close to the edge of new age. But where new age traffics in banal ideas about spirituality or nature or whatever, Eno give you the little fishes eux-mêmes in all their aquatic dub wonder.

how come geeta dyal's book about this record has been so long in coming out? amazon has it due in 2010 now, i mean what

Golden Hours, b/c of Fripp's geetar.

^yes. and it strokes one of my kinky music fetishes w/the keyboard-type clicks.

"Becalmed"

Looks like I'm the old fly in the ointment here, because after hearing all the critical praise and seeing the appearances on "Best Albums of all Time" lists, this album for me was a HUGE letdown. I expected something similar to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II and I got annoying pop songs with emotionless snarky vocals and Robert Fripp guitar solos and maybe two awesome peaceful ambient songs. I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AN AMBIENT ALBUM!!!

g33ta d4y4l can't finish her book because she spends too much time posting here under the name "pipecock"

Nice to have an excuse to pull this out again...it's been a while. Would have said "Everything Merges with the Night" off the top of my head but am now not so sure.

golden hours for aforementioned lyrical, frippertronic reasons

Sky Saw deserves at least one vote.

But it's a brilliant, endlessly replay-able record so any of them will do. And I dig the cover.

I also dig the cover; so much so I bought the LP and framed it on my wall.

jinx, I did as well.

But it's a brilliant, endlessly replay-able record so any of them will do. And I dig the cover.

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QFT. Went with Sombre Reptiles.

"I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AN AMBIENT ALBUM!!!"

the genius of this record is that it isn't just a ambient album.
and snarky? emotionless? annoying? i can hardly agree.

But I agree that the ambient cuts cut the songs. Will "In Dark Trees" or "Over Fire Island" get any love (the brief wtf shimmer at the end of the latter is my favorite moment on the album)?

The Big Ship because (a) I don't want Jazzbo to cry and (b) it reminds me of Orbital.

I didn't think it was possible to dance convincingly to "in dark trees" but my daughter proved me wrong the other night

4 me: the big ship vs. becalmed

both melancholy ambient eno at his best.

I believe the correct answer to this poll is "st elmo's fire" but I am tempted to pull the lever for "the big ship" because it really gets at what this album is all about

if we're gonna pay lip service to every track, i'll rep for "zawinul/lava" which i think is totally gorgeous + great use of percussion

"St. Elmo's Fire" over "Golden Hours" and the passage of time.

"Everything Merges with the Night"
can't help it.

Listened to this again today. The vocal songs are great, but it's really about the instrumentals. Zawinul/Lava.

"I'll Come Running" all the way

"The Big Ship" is like an early precursor to "An Ending (Ascent)." Same sort of cyclical structure and vibe, totally different texture and timbre, equally stirring effect.

'becalmed' is suuuper pretty

Even just picking among the instrumentals is hard, torn between In Dark Trees and Sombre Reptiles. From the vocal tracks, Golden Hours. Now I really want the 33 1/3 book to show up. Guess I vote for In Dark Trees.

Cuntz should really check this out (not necessarily just the mp3s)

http://www.emusic.com/album/Arturo-Stalteri-coolAugustMoon-From-The-Music-Of-Brian-Eno-MP3-Download/10953803.html

cranking this way up while my roomie is seeing harry potter... so gorgeous!

thom -- my book on "another green world" for the continuum 33 1/3 series is finished. it's coming out in two months! in september.

i'm pretty sure this is my favorite album ever. i can't pick a favorite song, it pains me to pick one, i just can't do it. its an almost unbearably beautiful record.

played this Monday on my way home from work on Los Angeles freeways, great ride.

i went with "Golden Hours."

Big Ship

oh hey thanks geeta! didn't think you were still on ilx

Geeta I eagerly await your book.

Kinda resisted this album for years but it is irresistable...went with sky saw...cos it's prototype English White Funk and it thrills me to think of a young Prince Rogers Nelson funking out to it...

So hard.

Golden Hours is tragically beautiful

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Is it true that the album cover depicts a woman about to be pissed on?

how exactly?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Another_Green_World.jpg

i think you're thinking of the pic of the girl pissing hidden on the "Here Come The Warm Jets" cover

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Warmjetsvinyl.jpg

down by his right elbo

OMG! I've had this on vinyl for eons and never noticed that!

plus the title, yknow

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wtf. i sooo voted for "Little Fishes!!!!'

59 votes for songs with lyrics
38 votes for ambient songs

Brown Eyes and I were tired
We had walked and we had scrambled
Through the moors and through the briars
Through the endless blue meanders
In the blue August moon
In the cool August moon

Over the nights and through the fires
We went surging down the wires
Through the towns and on the highways
Through the storms in all their thundering
In the blue August moon
In the cool August moon

Well we rested in a desert
Where the bones were white as teeth, sir
And we saw St. Elmo's Fire
Splitting ions in the ether
In the blue August moon
In the cool August moon

"...on 'St. Elmo's Fire' I had this idea and said to Fripp, 'Do you know what a Wimshurst machine is?' It's a device for generating very high voltages which then leap between the two poles, and it has a certain erratic contour, and I said, 'You have to imagine a guitar line that has that, very fast and unpredictable.' And he played that part which to me was very Wimshurst indeed." (-- Brian Eno, interviewed by Lester Bangs for Musician in 1979)

one of the few track-by-track polls that is actually interesting i think : /

surprised at low showing of 'i'll come running', which is the song that made me like him (although er i did vote for 'golden hours' in the end, because it makes one hell of a theme song for yr early 20s)

Boo-hoo

it's a respectable showing for one of the ambient tunes methinks

Not sure if I'd label "The Big Ship" ambient, but I get your meaning. I thought it had a good chance of winning, based on all the love I've seen for it on other threads.

gosh this is such an incredible album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErXSlbJseo&feature=related

This page features a link to "Totalled" a fairly nifty early version of "I'll Come Running" that Eno did for his one and only peel session.
http://utahpolis.com/2008/01/30/eno-and-the-winkies-peel-session/

The complete Another Green World cover painting can be seen here. So there you go.

That's awesome. Thanks.

omg

FYI: my book for the continuum 33 1/3 series on eno's "another green world" is (finally!) out in the US. if you pre-order a copy on amazon now, you'll get it within a week. stores should have it in stock next week, too.

Congrats, Geeta! That's awesome.

i don't know ya, but i am looking forward to reading this--congratulations

Yay, Geeta!

Excited !

It's my birthday on Friday - this is going on the list of things to buy with the proceeds; Congrats on the publication!

the german amazon says it will be out on 31st January 2010. how come that it takes so long to get published in europe?

alex - I have no idea why amazon.de is taking that long. that sounds wrong to me. i would recommend ordering from Amazon US if that's possible.

looks like amazon.de is still lagging with regards to my book, but amazon.ca now has it in stock, and amazon.co.uk is saying "usually dispatches within 1 to 3 weeks," for what that's worth. amazon.com has loads of copies in stock.

Wonderful, beautiful record. My girlfriend just asked me who was on the record player because she recognised the music from BBC "Arena" - I told her and she said "Oh right, the guy that did Band Aid with Bob Geldof?"

Not quite.

Is there any other stuff like this?

I was kinda just seeing if I could post btw. After all this time. Sigh.

But I am interested in whether there are other Eno records like this. The only other one I own is Music For Films, and I really don't think that is similar.

Well, this is part of his quadrilogy of vocal albums, all of which are somewhat different but his voice and sensibility is the common thread. If you haven't, check out "Before And After Science" next.

kraudive - sadly there are not really any other Eno records like it. but as mentioned Before and After Science is quite good. I am also quite fond of Apollo. Music for Films is very sparse and IMO kinda weak

also if you dig the Another Green World sound you might want to check out Roedelius's Jardin Au Fou. it's also very calm and pretty but not overly simple. plus I think their styles are somewhat similar.

they're all different, but if you dig Another Green World then you owe it to yourself, and to the citizens of the 19th Galaxy, to check out Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Before and After Science, and Here Come the Warm Jets. You might not love everything on the other three, but you will find something worthwhile on all three.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HlERGgXXg1c/Sp3PQgixHCI/AAAAAAAAATg/jk-TTOPhIUg/s400/wearhouse.jpg

yeah that's a pretty insane 4-album run, especially as all four albums are praised for different things

btw i'm surprised "Everything Merges With the Night" didn't score higher. it's such an incredibly beautiful tune with a chilling guitar tone, gives me goosebumps every time

i'm surprised that "In Dark Trees" didn't do so well, too. it was overused in Adam Curtis' Power of Nightmares, but it was the perfect soundtrack to hubris

I think I voted for "I'll Come Running" as it often comes unbidden into my head. Such a great inside-out of the typical love song.

I'm a late bloomer when it comes to Eno - I bought the vocal box in 2001, and the instrumental box last year. If I had to, I could probably survive on an island with just the music contained therein. Something for almost every mood, I think.

I'll come running also features the most perfect guitar solo ever--first post back in ilx about fripp, check.

well, next to the St. Elmo's Fire one, yeah

basically those first four Eno vocal albums are perfect

yup

on agw 9/14 tracks are instrumentals my dear.

frogbs - I do have the Roedelius album actually and love it a lot. I shall check out the other Eno records. A trip to Discogs is in order, I think.

on agw 9/14 tracks are instrumentals my dear.

which leaves it five more vocal tracks than nearly every post-BAAS Eno album...

frogbs - I do have the Roedelius album actually and love it a lot.

then the other one I can recommend (which you probably already have) is Cluster's Soweisoso

Worth a tangential taste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TALWkw3cWqA&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL448AE950FFF58A80

This is pretty great, if all too brief
http://punknotprofit.blogspot.com/2009/04/eno-winkies-peel-sessions.html

A lot of people missed that last year or so he appeared at one of those performances of "Apollo" material and encored with a few sung renditions of his early classics.

Actually i'm getting a malware warning from that link. Try this instead
http://uuhngschpugg.blogspot.com/2010/11/eno-winkies-peel-session-1974.html

Worth a tangential taste:

Ha! I read about Eno giving Percy grief over stealing his own bass part from that Brand X track for 'Over Fire Island'. It is a similar part, but the main similarity is simply the fact that it's Percy playing the instrument, not too many people sound like him

"Everything Merges With the Night" – 3:59 7

^^^

im always kinda bummed i sold off all the astralwerks reissues of eno stuff, i really liked the packaging and they sounded really nice

"I'll Come Running" – 3:48 10

i skip over this bullshit every time

another source for those bbc winkies things + a live show.
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7385910412/a-year-with-a-collapsed-lung-brian-eno-the
skip over i'll come running?! wild.

totally breaks the mood

yeah i can see that. i think i *like* that it breaks the mood though.

the live show is horrendous quality unfortunately

oh dear, this thread

Ha! I read about Eno giving Percy grief over stealing his own bass part from that Brand X track for 'Over Fire Island'. It is a similar part, but the main similarity is simply the fact that it's Percy playing the instrument, not too many people sound like him

yes, this was in my book

there's also a bit in my book about people skipping over 'i'll come running' in the '70s!

>yes, this was in my book

needless to say, I read about this in your awesome book

& I found out about this from you as well: http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/shows/4308/

^^ SO GOOD

thank you

Becalmed, holy shit, what a track

The tail end of this record is just stunning

my pick is still Everything Merges With the Night. I love the way it just gradually fades in like a sunrise.

This thread should've been revived 10 times since 2012.

The 2004 BBC doc series The Power of Nightmares was my gateway to this album - every episode opened with "The Big Ship." (The doc has some problems - a few arguments remain highly dubious - but it's mostly a compelling watch.

i'm surprised that "In Dark Trees" didn't do so well, too. it was overused in Adam Curtis' Power of Nightmares, but it was the perfect soundtrack to hubris
LOL missed this. Yeah, that was REALLY overused now that I remember it, but "The Big Ship" made for a cool opening

Last time I listened to the big ship (while walking the dog at night this winter) I strongly considered designating it my funeral music

It's also one of those few tracks that, if I'm in the right mood, I can play on loop and listen to for an hour straight without getting sick of it. Probably moreso when I was in school and studying or writing a paper for hours on end.

The Big Ship is all-time, but its “funereal” use in a handful of films I’ve seen in the past few years (the Jason Segel is Davis Foster Wallace joint comes to mind) have maybe tainted it slightly for any “in remembrance of” situation.

Lol I srsly did not know it had become a funereal cliche when I had that thought! So it’s the barber adagio of our generation huh

Very interesting piece about Eno and Tom Phillips, the artist who did the painting on the cover of AGW. Or rather the cover of AGW is a detail from Phillips' painting.

https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/publications/item/5325-how-we-met-by-brian-eno-and-tom-phillips

The full painting

https://i.imgur.com/83baArR.png

And here's the one it was based on, in apparently terrible condition

https://images.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/styles/dynamic/public/import-objects/127977_v0_large.jpg

I had always assumed the figure was supposed to be Brian Eno, wearing a cap. You learn something every day. The original ("After Raphael") is in the Tate:
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/phillips-after-raphael-p01550

It looks like one of those arty video games from a few years back, viz Eidolon or Proteus. Or a 1980s text adventure along the lines of Twin Kingdom Valley.